I hope you’re right. I don’t hold anything past them. In a just world Clarence Thomas would not be sitting on the Supreme Court.
Right-Wing Justices Conjure Up Lawn Care Strawman To Juxtapose With Supposedly Elite Student Debtors
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Justice Elena Kagan said: “Congress passed a statute that dealt with loan repayment for colleges and it didn’t pass a statute that dealt with loan repayment for lawn businesses — so Congress made a choice…”
Well, yes. Except Congress ALSO gave pandemic assistance to the nation’s business owners, by making THEIR loans under the PPP program FULLY FORGIVEABLE.
–> So the student loan partial forgiveness is LESS GENEROUS than the total loan forgiveness Congress provided for business owners.
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I don’t own a house. How is it fair that those who chose to take out home loans get mortgage interest tax deductions?
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I suppose the right wing justices think that amount of money should go to billionaires only.
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Interestingly, the Trump Administration apparently agreed by limiting the amount one can still deduct
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Limited but not eliminated.
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Because it effects blue states more.
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Children got shot at a school. Are Conservatives saying they think that’s fair?
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It’s unfair? Unfucking fair? What are we, in the sixth grade?
But forcing a 10-year old to bear her rapist uncle’s baby is perfectly fucking normal? And somehow fair?
These fascist sons-of-bitches are giving Himmler a posthumous hard-on.
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“Why was it fair to the people who didn’t get arguably comparable relief?” Alito asked.
Well, hey, Sammy, let THEM sue. THEY just might have standing.
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There may be some question of fairness in all this—for instance, I have empathy for folks who worked very hard while going to school in order to minimize or avoid student debt, and I can see how they might now look at this debt relief and see unfairness if some of it goes to people who did not work their way through. However, I didn’t see this point raised, and in any case, any fairness argument coming from the GQP SCOTUS hacks is going to be hypocritical and weaponized for purposes of plutocratic evil-doing.
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Let’s hope that’s all it is, and not laying the groundwork for yet another about-face in long-established judicial procedure.
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One point I’m betting no one made: That fictional person who started a lawn care business probably wound up with more money - even if the comparison student had their loan forgiven - by virtue of being in the work force longer. In my former field, technical writers with an associate’s degree made more money on average than tech writers with doctorates. Why? They had more experience, more time on the job.
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The answer is obviously nothing. The right-wing justices are playing Calvinball. Apparently the Federalist Society has been funding endowed chairs in Calvinball at Ivy League law schools, 'cuz the SCOTUS gang has some chops at it.
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My mother, on medicare, never broke her hip. How is it fair that all those clumsy oafs got free hip replacements but she didn’t?
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“blocking the program would actually thwart the will of Congress, which provided for the secretary of education to act on student loan debt in times of emergency.”
–Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar, 2023
“[The intent of] Congress doesn’t get much clearer.”
–Justice Kagan, 2023
Or the people.
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That’s exactly the new SCrOTUS jurisprudence: Calvinball !!
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I agree with you to a point, but if the person making that argument is someone who graduated from college 50 years ago, I would point out that college tuition is something like 10 times what it was 50 years ago, but the federal minimum wage for the sorts of jobs college students normally get hasn’t risen anywhere near that much.
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If we can cancel trillions in taxes for a handful of billionaires, we can cancel student loan debt for over 40 million Americans.
I always did like Robert Reich!
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